Gov Walz Earnestly Made His Case And Landed Meaningful Blows, JD Vance Was An Odious Liar and Extremist. It Is October Now - Let's Keep Working Hard All!I talk to Hopium paid subscribers today at 4pm ET, we make calls/postcard Tmr 715pm ET For Adam Gray (CA-13)
Happy Wednesday all. It is October, postcards are flying, and early voting is going to really take off next week as many states turn on early voting. The most important thing now is to keep working it every day, in whatever way you can….. The debate. I am still trying to get my head around what I saw last night. A few initial thoughts with my top line is that Vance did not do the one thing he needed to do - change the trajectory of a race they are not winning…… This morning I remain just bowled over by the lies, inventions and contempt the modern right has for all of us. We know Trump spends more of his time in a world of untruth and invention rather than the world we all live in - eating cats and dogs, sharks and batteries, the economy was better under him, he isn’t a rapist, fraudster, traitor, felon etc. Last night we heard Vance also spending most of the debate there with Trump in this bat shit crazy MAGA world - climate change isn’t real, stripping away the rights and freedoms of women is a good thing, denying their clear assault on American’s access to affordable and quality care, continuing to lie about the 2020 election and their attempt to over turn American democracy. It was as if Vance’s central goal last night was to lie, paper over and deflect from their extremism; to use clearly practiced and often ridiculous diversions in a silly setting to limit the political damage their beliefs would actually cause if he fully articulated them in public. It was a defensive performance by a losing campaign that knows how far away they are from the majority of Americans. To limit the damage Vance repeatedly trod out comically absurd lines and narratives that wouldn’t withstand the simplest fact check, taking advantage of CBS’s cowardly decision to yield to the Trump campaign’s illiberal demands to allow lying and invention to happen unchallenged. I guess my point here is how much Vance built his performance around these brief opportunities to lie, obscure, invent and deflect given the absurd format. It was so shockingly dishonest and contemptuous of the American people; for serial lying is an insult to democracy, an illiberal act, a manifestation of authoritarianism. And when the one time he was called out for his lying and invention by Margaret Brennan he shrieked (see the video above). For in that moment he became fearful of having this fictional world he and the campaign had fashioned to obscure their ugliness exposed as invention; that it would become clear that he was an actor in a play and not the fictional character itself; the curtain was briefly pulled back from the Wizard and we saw him demand it be drawn back; no, in fact, the princeling was wearing clothes and was not naked for all of us to see he shouted at all of us last night… Here is a brief exchange on MSNBC last night about the centrality of lying and deflection to their entire project (all these videos can be found on KamalaHQ feed on social media platforms):  Here is a Gen Z voter responding last night to Vance claiming to make our kids safe in schools we need better locks and doors - “ridiculous” which is one of the best ways we all have to describe them:  Last night was an ugly spectacle, and our guy did his best in a very challenging format for truth based-discourse. He was particularly strong and compelling on health care and reproductive freedom. And of course he crushed Vance in that late exchange on Vance’s illiberal refusal to denounce insurrection. The campaign is already out with a video/ad on the exchange (please share this widely through your networks):  Here is another young voter expressing outrage about something Vance said, this one on his refusal to denounce insurrection:  5 of the 6 undecided voters on NBC news last night said Governor Walz won the debate.  NPR produced a good fact check on the debate. One other literally jawdropping moment last night was Vance’s assertion that immigrants smuggling guns in from Mexico were a central cause of gun violence in the US. As someone who has worked on immigration and border issues for 20 years I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. Guns are illegal in Mexico. There are no guns made in Mexico. The cartels get their guns here in the US, where half of all guns in the world reside. Our lax gun laws have helped make the cartels what they are today and have destabilized our neighbor to the South. The guns Vance described last night all came from here - not Mexico. It was an extraordinary and shocking invention, something way beyond a lie, another fascistic attempt to denigrate the other. The Trump campaign was successful in getting two of the three debates to not allow fact checking on air (I still can’t believe this happened at all). The one where they were not able to get that agreed too Trump got crushed. Trumpworld isn’t agreeing to another debate with Harris because they have learned he cannot survive contact with the real world, as their lies and inventions melt, and we get to see the old and hunched Wizard not the false grandeur of Oz/MAGA. Yesterday 60 Minutes announced that Trump had pulled out of a scheduled interview with them because they wanted to fact check him. Here’s Axios, and note that the Trump campaign lies - of course - about what happened:
Countering this dark world of untruth and invention - and exposing it as a central tactic of MAGA and authoritarians all around the world - was a central reason I started Hopium. Here is something I wrote in my very first Hopium post:
We all know that we are so so much better than this. And we are not going back to all this ugliness. We are going forward. Onward to victory, my friends, together for our freedoms, our democracy and our future. Hopium Paid Subscribers Gather Today at 4pm ET - I am hosting a post-debate recap gathering today at 4pm ET for Hopium paid subscribers. If you are not yet a paid subscriber and want to join us, hit the link below and sign up! Paid subscribers help keep most of our content here free for all at this critical moment. So becoming a paid subscriber to Hopium really matters. A recording of this event will be here tomorrow for those who cannot make it live. Election, Polling Update - Doing a lot of media today so a short update this morning, more data and analysis tomorrow. We got new battleground state polls from the Cook Report which show the race where we’ve believed it to be - close and competitive, with all seven states in play, and us being in better shape and closer to 270 than them. This chart also shows how much the election has moved in our favor over the past few months:
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